Posts tagged madison
As a one comrade mentioned, hearing this song on the radio is “the one time in the US when atheism, internationalism and communism are portrayed positively on the mainstream media.”
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In the wake of Wisconsin Governor Scot Walker’s win in the recall elections, I’m afraid that what I would say to my fellow Wisconsinites is all too similar to what I would say to Chinese citizens:
The party has failed you.
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Noam Chomsky is my hero. I challenge anyone to give me some really good reasons to think otherwise.
Really - I’d be willing to hear them.
Besides… the man getting old. I may cry when he dies. And then… there will be a gigantic void in my life that I’m afraid I’ll never fill :(
I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels the same way.
He’s still pumping out great articles, one after the other. Here’s his latest posted on Al-Jazeera.
“The democracy uprising in the Arab world has been a spectacular display of courage, dedication, and commitment by popular forces - coinciding, fortuitously, with a remarkable uprising of tens of thousands in support of working people and democracy in Madison, Wisconsin, and other US cities. If the trajectories of revolt in Cairo and Madison intersected, however, they were headed in opposite directions: in Cairo toward gaining elementary rights denied by the dictatorship, in Madison towards defending rights that had been won in long and hard struggles and are now under severe attack.”
Solidarity, people’s of the world
Solidarity
